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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27
A Minister'S Perquisites.

The perquisites of minister's life
are as general thing over estimated.
An old clergyman firmly believed this
who had received call to small
church in the eastern part of this State
from his much larger parish in Massa-
chusetts. A delegation from the church
was sent to urge him to accept the call.
He asked them what the salary was
They replied that it was about 5000 per
year, but that the people were very
generous and were continually bring
ing in things to the minister. "Well, "
said he, Il don't wish to offend you,
but 1 must positively decline. And
now let me give you a bit of my ex-
perience: In my younger days re-
ceive.l call to small parish where,
as in the case with your people, they
were very liberal. 1t was their custom
to always give the minister ball Of
butter when they churned and a quarter
of veal when they slaughtered. ae
cepted the call. Things went along as
they represented during the first year.
After that there began to be falling
off in their donations until / soon re
ceived hardly any thing. I began t.
make inquiries One of my parish
toner's told me gave perfect satisfac
ton, but the people had begun to rails
their calves. And it has been my ex
perience," continued the old minister
''that donating parishioners soon begil
to raise their calves. "-Lewisto,
lAs.l Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27
Homemade Saving MaShine.

A New York correspondent of an
Eastern paper tells how a crcss-cut saw
may be used to good advantage by one
man: One end of the saw-She handle
being taken offs hung by I swinging
bar several feet long to the Side of the
wood house. The swinging bar should
run between two horizontal slsips, which
will make it run steady. 70 support
the stick which is to be sawsl, heavy
piece is fastened on the colser of the
shed. and crooked piece is fastened to
the side of the shed, either by mailing
from the inside or bolts, or b. setting it
in the ground. The saw shsuld have a
good set so it will go throuesl the wood
without cramping. The songer the
swinging bar is the less rocking motion
the saw will have.-Prairie Farmer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27
Very Stupid indeed.

Even child sometimes ascribes the
neglect of the ordinary social duties
and courtesies by one of its companions
to the true cause, but usually children
are only frank enough to speak their
minds on the subject.
A little child, seeing another, some-
what older than herself, looking in at
the garden gate, ran to her in most
friendly manner.
what is 90 name?" she asked, sew
cral times, without receiving an answer.
"Where do 90 libP" she continued.
with the same effect.
The visitor then slowly walked away.
and the socially inclined child called
after her: .'Dib my lub to 90 mamma,
90 toopidr' Youths Companion,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27
LITTLE BY LITTLE.

"a m roaring river pouring
ysIls the sammer rain.
). With sprinkle, patter, unkle,
nm rof and hill. and plain.
~. by drop-how the green leaves grow!
,rp Dy drop--how the f"ir Ouos DOW
v. that cover the bare earth over
Z, vrap her winter sleep,
!, hi,ber, thither, feather by featner'
y Hntil they lie knee-deep.
..rs by fake guards the bulb from harm!
r,re n, by fake is the wheat kept warm.
:. orchard gladdens the eye and reddens
With apples all its trees;
a., rot in minute was drawn within 1t
mo sweets of sun and breeze;
A. blaok seed first, then the tender shoot,
x trunk the blossom, and now the fruit
r,x,r we're seven-league- boots given
rreept in the fairy tale,
=, ean wishing hurry the speed, or carry
Uncover peak and dale.
s,,u BY step In shine and shade,
!. ~ long road travelled, the journey made.
ss.ond nv second time is reckoned,
A. winged are they as bees,
~ svift for counting, yet soon amounting
10 yesrs and centuries.
IVORY tick of the Clock says onel
Ind ali 1t can do for the world Is done
soau however the true endeavor,
Great may its outcome be.
hurden liahtened; lone life frightened;
Asave to sin set free;
me sick and the sorrowing visited,
me naked clothed and the hungry fed
-Ers. Clara Doty Bates. in s. s. Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27

When man dies in the Society
Islands they paint his body; in this
country they paint his character.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27

"A man never has good luck who
has bad wife,-Reecher.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27
A Mighty Bad Spell.

A few months ago an old gentleman
was seen mailing notice on fence on
the south side of Austin avenue. A
friend. passing, said:
"Why don't you have the notice put
in the paper, where people can read it?'
"Waal," said the old gentleman, 'it
Itook it to the newspaper Office them
newspaper fellers would get it spelled
wrong, and then somebody would think
/ didn't have no eddication."
The notice read: "Howze fur rent in
choir on preymesis. .''-Teras Siftings.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27

Mrs. Horace Lewis, of Ketchum,
Idaho. has a young antelope for pet.
The creature follows its mistress at all
times, even going into the kitchen and
watching the cooking.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-23

keeper of the woodward that he might
hinder us from getting full supply. But
this did not discourage us, for even when
Andrews reluctantly gave the word to
come on board, Wilson, who as fireman
had great appreciation of the need of
fuel, fingered still to get huge armload
more, and the enemy, seeing our engine
standing there, were actually obliged to
'slow up to avoid the collision that
seemed inevitable. However we did not
wait for them to get close enough to use
their shotguns-at least not to any effect
though Wilson is quite positive that some
guns were fired. He says:
owe had, however, secured only par
tial supply when the chasing train came
in sight, loaded with armed soldiers. Our
pursuers were worked up to an Infatuated
pitch Of excitement, and rent the very air
with their screeches and yells as they
came in sight of us, like dogs when the
quarry is sprung. They opened on us at
long range with musketry. The bullets
ratified around us like hail, but fortu-
nately none of our party was hit"
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(I'O be cOntinued.)


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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-23

Uut II snort Instance aneau, wnere 1t was
left to smoke and sputter in the rain on
the side track.
We were now on what proved to be our
last run. | have often been asked il this
day was not one of great fear and terror
on the part of those who were engaged in
the race. For my own part, ] cannot
honestly lay claim to any greater fear
than had often felt in ordinary military
service. No matter what happened, there
was the assurance that we still had one
resource-the power to turn around and
attack the pursuing foe. From the be.
ginning, such n conflict had been present
to my mind as matter Of course. Be
fore leaving camp, this had been reckonefi
natural consequence of our position.
1t had been frequently talked of among
the men, and not one of them seemed to
regard it with any more dread than an
ordinary battle. We had been careful to
select large revolvers for use. and not for
show, and when we found the enemy
gaining upon us, or our leaders plans for
their destruction failing, we only felt OF
said that our time to strike would soon
come. We did not have the boastful feel
ing that we were an oVermatch for a large
body of southern soldiers for we all
often did fight; but of the ordinary citi.
zenS gathered up as we presumed our
purSucrs were, or even of conscrpts. we
had 10 great fear. That we had not our
accustomed arms was serious disad-
vantage but this could be reInedied by
getting into close quarters; and we trusted
that our leader. who had shown such
wonderful skill in management, would be
able to put us within short range of the
pursuing train, where we felt sure that we
could quickly give good account of it.
Probably the fact of Andrews having
never been in battle, but always engaged
in schemes where his own cool daring and
sagacious planning counted for every
thing and mere force for nothing, made
him hesitate to order an attack which
would throw aside all these qualities and
determine the issue by simple fighting.
y time was near when we would firmly
have disputed our leaders command if
there had been an officer of any authority
among us who could have been substi-
tuird for him; but not until Andrews
li,ISclf had definitely abandoned his au
thurty.
Many times the question has been
asked: "Why did you not reverse your en-
zine, and jumping Off, let it drive back at
the enemy What good could that have
done; If their engine and our own had
been destroyed as was very probable, to-
gcihcr with Il considerable number Of
lives, we would only have been where we
were before we captured the engine at
all. except that the whole country would
have been aroused. and our disguise
thrown off. The second train would have
been on the ground in u few minutes and
the power of pursuit would have been I'M
diminished We had no wish to sacrifice
our own engine until the last effort pos
sible had been made. To merely destroy
had no charm for us. when that destruc-
ton could neither promote our escape nor
serve military purpose.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-23
CHAPTER XII.
A BURNING CAR.

But for the wetness of the day all his
efforts even yet would have been foiled.
We now did what had been in the mind
of Andrews, doubtless, for some time
past-what he might have tried even ut
the OOStenaula bridge had not the inter
val between that and Calhoun been SO
fearfully short. He ordered us to fire
our last car while we were running. 1t
was said easily, but was much harder to
do. Everything about the car was as wet
as it we'll could be. The rain fell in tor
rents, and the wood was drenched in the
tender 1t was by no small effort and
skillful firing that the engine fire could
be kept at the heat required for fast run
ming. But desperate fingers tore every
thing cOmbustble loose from the car, and
smashed it into kindling Some blazing
fagOtS were stolen from the engine and
the fire made to burn. The rapid mo-
ton with driving rain was an obstacle AT
first, but ms we fed up the blaze and shell
tered it as well as possible, it grew rap
idly, till soon but one could stay ON the
car and watch it, and all the others
crowded on the tender and locomotive.
The steam was now gradually shut off
that we might come slowly upon the
bridge and be able to leave the burning
car just at the right place. We came to
full stop at this first Chickamauga
bridge Il large one, and well covered. In
side it was at least drier than on the out
side, and we doubted not that with
time it would burn well. The only ques-
ton was: "Will that time be given" We
added almost the last of our oil and nearly
the last stick of mountaineering that Il
wood station was not far ahead. and if
this bridge could be made to burn well,
we could have all the time we wanted to
get wood and everything else. In fact we
put life itself on this last throw, and left
ourselves, in case of failure, hopelessly
bankrupt. For considerable time, as it
seemed to us, though it must have been
measured by seconds rather than minutes,
we remained on the other side Of the fire
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-23
CHAPTER Nj,
A DIRECT RAILROAD CHASE.

But we now had good head of steam,
and with joyful bound our engine, as if
refreshed from its rest, sped on again.
We had been careful to so obstruct the
track that the enemy was obliged to come
to full halt, and TINS give us time to
once more get outof sight
We passed Tilton III safety, and the
water station. which at that time was at
different place from the wood yard, was
soon reached, Our supply of this neces-
sitY was low, and without it our progress
would be At once arrested. We stopped,
adjusted the pipes, told the powder story
although from the battered appearance
of our only car, with a hole knocked in
each end, that story was no longer plaus-
ible, but il answered for the moment and
we succeeded in getting all the water we
needed, Had any objection been made
we would have taken it by force, and the
assurance with which we went TO work
aided in securing confidence. Before the
tank was fun the pursuers came in sight,
but seeing us they ran slowly, and as Il
party of our men had run back and put
some Instructions on the track, out of gun
shot, they We're obliged to come to full
stop there, thus giving us the time needed.
Then we mounted and sped on toward
Dalton.
1t was advisable at once to get dcci-
sively ahead of the pursuers before reach
ing this town, which might present Seri-
Gus difficulties. As there were no bridges
to burn now for a considerable distance,
the only other thing was to try once more
to tear up the track The engine was
again in good running condition and we
rushed rapidly forward, putting frequent
distractions on the track-mostly by drop
ping ties or sticks of firewood, but in one
or two instances by reversing the engine,
jumping ont and piling up distractions.
AT favorable place we stopped again for
more permanent break.
Long practice had made us skillful in
this matter, and the last two stops had
shown us that the enemy could not run
upon us without great care. So we
divided at once into four parties. Scott
and a companion cut the telegraph;
Knight carefully inspected the engine;
two or three ran back just out of gun
shot, and heaped distractions on the
track, while the remainder worked with
might and main in taking up rail. 1t
was here that little occurrence took
place that has been much msrepresented.
a southern account, widely copied,
says that Andrews men almost mutinied
against him at this place. The facts
are these; The writer and the men in the
box car had come to feel that there was
no need Of running so long before the pur-
suing train, which we could see to be a
short one, with probably not much if any
greater force than our own. Now while
as many were at the rail as could find
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-23

whole road ahead of u? If So we would
do well to abandon our efforts for the
destruction of bridges and seek our own
safety. OF one thing we felt sure, it
must have been one of Nhe trains we had
passed at Calhoun or Adairsvile that was
following, but Why There were three
possibilities only to choose from. The
first and less serious was that the sus-
piciouS conductor at Calhoun, who had
been 50 unwilling to let us pass, had de
ilermined that we were impostors, and at
his own motion had set out TO follow us.
If so, we would have to deal only with
him, and might yet accomplish part of
'our work. Or it might he that the freight
had run TO where we had broken up the
track, had escaped wreck, and turning
back, had telegraphed ahead before
we had cut the wire. In this
case all the road ahead would be
alarmed, and this was probable indeed.
Or, once more, messenger might have
been sent down to Marietta from Big
Sbanty, and dispatch sent to Atlanta
and around the whole circuit Of the
sConfederacy back to Chattanooga, and.
before the wires had been cut, to one OF
che trains we had passed, with orders TO
follow us closely and prevent us from
damaging the road until a train could
be sent out from Chattanooga TO secure
our capture. If either Of these latter
1onjectures were true-and they were the
most probable-our race was almost run!
We wOuld be obliged to leave the road, and
'sssay the far more difficult task of
escaping on foot. If Andrews thought
either of these probably true, it would
,tUlly account for his reluctance in order
2ng the capture of pursuing train; for
gSuch n capture could do no permanent
good, while every one of his party wounded
in the fight would be disabled for the in
'rvitable and terrible land journey ahead,
gzad wOuld surely be lost In view of the
akszoost hopeless situation as it appeared
s;sS us then-far worse than the reality,
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for the road ahead hau not been warhet.
as yet-thc heroic constancy of Andrews,
who continued to put forth every possible
effort as coolly and quietly as if success
had been within his grasp, is made
brightly conspicuous. There were now
three chasing trains; first, Fuller and his
men with the locomotive of the down
freight; second the Calhoun passenger,
which had Immediately followed him and
was mt verv far behind; and last, the
train started from Marietta, and loaded
with soldiers.
For time after leaving Resaca we did
not run very fast. 1t was evident that we
could not get away from the engine be-
hind us by mere speed; the only hope was
in some way to disable them, or to OBJ
struct the track; and we were obliged to
be saving of our fuel But now we were
approaching Green's, wood station near
1ilton, and we were determined to have a
fresh supply at any cost. So the last wood
in the box, with little of our precious
oil, was showed into the furnace, and
Brown, who had now taken the throttle
turned on full head of steam, and we
once more few along the track At the
same time we who were in the box car
put line of ties along its floor and kept
them moving to the hole in the end, and
let them drop as fast as possible on the
track. This was rapidly eXhausting our
ammunition, but it was efTectual in enforc-
ing slowness and caution upon our pur-
suers. Fuller could not run rapidly in
the face of such n succession of obstacles.
He did the best he could, giving the sig
nal to reverse whenever he saw n lie on
the track, jumping off and removing it,
and on again, when the engineer would
start with u fun hsad of steam, and re-
duce speed, as the engine gathered head
way to such n rate as would admit of
stopping in time when another tie was
seen. 1t was fearfully perilous, and the
only wonder is that he was not wrecked
long before the chase was done. But he
probably understood that we were racing
for the wood yard ahead.
When we reached it there was no linger-
ing in the work of loading up. The wood
was piled in frantically by men working
for life; but before we had half filed the
tender we again heard our relentless fol-
lower. So eager were we to get the larg-
est possible supply of wood that we did
not take their first whistle as sufficient
intimation to start. Then came scream
after scream of the most unearthly char
acter, obviously designed to alarm thu
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-23
BY WILLIAM PITTENGER,
A MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION.

E,CoIy GIFTED 1887, by War Publishing Co, N, Y,
GDd published by arrangement with them.l
lG may be well to notice here how our
ignorance of the enemy and his ignorance
of us both Injured to his advantage There
had been already many intimatons among
us that it would be well to turn and fight
rather than to be chased any further.
Had the real weakness of the enemy on
Inc first train been known, Andrews
No1ld have certainly ordered the attack.
On che other hand, if Fullers party had
KNOWN how strong we were he could not
have induced them to continue the chase,
even If the resolute conductor himself had
not been willing to wait for help. 1t was
believed at first that we were but four
the number on the engine. The estimate
vas never raised higher than eight, Muir
ply suggesting to Fuller even then that
1t would be better to wait for the train
behind and take on more men. But Fuller
resolved to persevere and at least delay us
at the risk of his own life. Had it been
known that we were twenty, he and his
slender band would not have been guilty
of the madness of crowding on nearly
'twiee sheir number, even if better armed
and sure of help at every station. But
this madness, this unreasonable pursuit
sbS result of imperfect knowledge, served
hem well.
After passing Resaca, we again forced
our puTsuers back by dropping ties on the
rack, and not knowing whether it was
telegraph station or not, we again cut the
wives No Instructions were placed on
The track at this point, but it was on
1snrve, and taking rail which had been
bent in lifting it / placed one end under
The rail at one side and the other project
ing dlagonally toward the train on the
other side. The pursuers saw us start,
out seeing no Instructions they ran at q
good rate of speed right over this rail-
Their escape was marvellous. Persons on
he tender jumped foot high, and one of
Euller's stanchest helpers demanded that
The train be stopped to let him Off he
wanted no more such running as that.
But Fuller, though considering this the
greatest of their dangers, would not stop;
and it was impossible for him to keep a
ecloser lookout than he had done.
But what conjectures did we form to
account for the unexpected appearance of
this pursuing train? The story as given
10 She reader was totally unknown then
and we were greatly perpleXed. The
matter had great practical importance.
Was the engine started after us by an
authority which had also alarmed the
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Tbe expedition, in the daring OF its inception,
Dad the rildness of n romance; while in the
gigantic and overwhelming results it sought and
'wae likely 10 obtain it was absolutely sublime
-JrpeN ADVOCATE GENERAL HoLr's OFFICIAL RE
PORT
II was all the deepest laid scheme and on the
Ersndest scale, that ever emanated from the
brAAns of any number of Yankees combined
sBE SOUTHERN CoNFEDERACY ATLANTA, GAP
April IS. 1862.
Despite its tragic termination, it shows what a
handful of brave men could undertake in Amer
GcsL-OoHTE DE PARIS HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
tIse AMERICA vol. =, p. 1877.
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KINDLING A FIRE IN THE BON CAR.
watching. Then the memorable smoke of
the foe was seem the pin connecting the
burning car with our engine was pulled
out and we slowly moved on. Too clearly
we saw the ruin of all our hopes To wait
the coming of our foes was vain, They
were now near ut hand, and we could see
their guns, with which they would be able
to fight us at long range, The car which,
if the day had been dry, would long before
this have filled the bridge with II mass of
roaring flame, was burning faster than
the bridge, To take it to another bridge
was useless, for the drenching rain would
have given it little chance to burn away
from the shelter of the bridge. Very
sadly we left the tall column of smoke
behind. The pursuers saw the car, and
realizing how serious their loss would be
II 1t was permitted to consume the bridge,
they pushed right into the smoke and
showed the burning car on to Rnggold,